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Careem Launches AI Tool To Convert Grocery Lists To Online Orders

A new in-app feature lets users turn written or photographed grocery lists into instant product selections ready to buy.

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1 year ago

July 9, 2025

Nour Nasir

careem launches ai tool to convert grocery lists to online orders

Careem—the “everything app” for the Middle East — has introduced an AI-powered feature to simplify grocery shopping through its service. The new Grocery List tool allows users to upload a photo of a handwritten list or enter items manually, which the system then scans and converts into a curated set of product matches.

The tool uses AI to extract individual items from a list — typed or photographed — and presents customers with a single, scrollable page of suggested products. Users can then review, edit, and check out their order in one step, removing the need to search for items manually.

Chase Lario, VP of Careem Groceries, said the goal was to “remove unnecessary steps” and make the process as “efficient and intuitive” as possible. The tool is designed to support time-pressed customers looking for a faster way to handle routine grocery needs.

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The feature is now available within the Careem app under the “Groceries” section. It builds on Careem’s existing grocery delivery service, which operates in Dubai and Abu Dhabi with fulfilment times averaging 15 minutes. Careem Plus members continue to receive free delivery alongside benefits across other categories, including rides, food, and domestic services.

The update reflects a wider push among mobility and delivery platforms to integrate AI for practical, time-saving applications in everyday services.

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Trip.com Is Betting An AI Agent Will Book Your Next Vacation

Abu Dhabi, Jazeera Airways and a run of hotel deals give the company more inventory. Its Mastercard demo says the most about where booking technology is headed.

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2 days ago

September 16, 2026

Nour Nasir

trip.com is betting an ai agent will book your next vacation

Most of what Trip.com Group announced at Arabian Travel Market 2026 this week reads like the standard expansion playbook of an online travel agency: a new agreement with a tourism board, a run of hotel partnerships, an airline deal. However, one item was considerably more interesting: a demonstration built with Mastercard of an AI agent that doesn’t just suggest trips but also pays for them.

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The showcase put TripGenie, the company’s AI travel assistant, to work searching, selecting and completing purchases inside a single booking flow, with Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants handling the payment step and Network International processing the transactions on the merchant side. It’s limited for now to attractions and ancillary services, but the partners plan a phased commercial rollout from early 2027.

“As traveller expectations change, technology and AI will play an increasingly important role in how people plan their journeys,” says Schubert Lou, CEO of Trip.com.

Meanwhile, in more conventional news, CEO Lou and Saleh Mohamed Al Geziry (Director General for Tourism at the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi), signed an agreement building on the two organizations’ existing partnership, with joint marketing and Abu Dhabi destination content to be pushed across Trip.com Group’s platforms.

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On accommodation, the group expanded its partnerships with JA Hotels & Resorts, Ishraq Hospitality and Aleph Hospitality and deepened its work with Silkhaus, which brings vacation homes into a portfolio that has so far leaned on hotels. Jazeera Airways signed a strategic partnership intended to widen the Kuwaiti carrier’s reach and encourage earlier bookings, tied to Kuwait’s own tourism ambitions.

The company moved into a larger Dubai office earlier this year and describes its long-term aim as a two-way ecosystem: sending Middle East travelers abroad while drawing international visitors in.